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Re: merging enchancement request

From: John P N Pybus <john.pybus_at_zoology.oxford.ac.uk>
Date: 2003-01-09 20:37:37 CET

On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 6:27 pm, Philip Martin wrote:
> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> > The enhancement I'm recommending is that we add the words 'left' and
> > 'right' to our output suffixes, to disambiguate:
> >
> > filename.UUID.mine
> > filename.UUID.left.r182
> > filename.UUID.right.r182
> >
> > If no one objects, I'll file an enhancement issue. Really, this is
> > probably a five-minute code change too. :-)
>
> If I was being ambitious (I like that phrase, it describes things I
> would like to see but probably won't implement :) I would derive the
> label from the two URLs, using the first non-matching component of the
> URL, or the last component if they all match. So
>
> svn merge http://server/repo/trunk http://server/repo/branch/foo
>
> produces files ???.trunk.r123 ???.branch.r123, and
>
> svn merge -r123:456 http://server/repo/branch/foo
>
> produces files ???.foo.r123 ???.foo.r456.

Whichever naming scheme is chosen, it would be nice to form a pattern that
can be easily recognized by other tools. i.e. how would you use find to
recognise conflict files?

Perhaps filename.UUID.r128.{left,right} would be the better way round?

John

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